Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb what McCain...?

Ok, mcbush is an american hero and spent 5 years in a prisoner of war camp. That said, he really doesn't have a clue about the costs of war and ground combat. He was in the air force. I have seen reports of military people saying that mcbush is clueless. He throws around the fact that he served, but he knows nothing about military operations and occupation issues. I am starting to get the distinct impression that the guy is dumb as a rock. Third from the bottom of his class at annapolis is not a good thing. He probably would have been kicked out but for his father being an admiral.

They've had three months with NO incoming fire and this is their first shot? The music sucked. The flashes of him reminded me of Fight Club. And the heavy shadowing was disturbing (and I know they were trying to mask the scar, but still).

Not a good ad.

Always something I've wondered. During the Primary Hillary would come out with an ad and no more than a day later Obama would come out with a response ad. I would really like to see a behind-the-scenes of how these get made so quickly.

Do they just find the nearest studio to whereever Obama happened to be that day and film something quick?

Well let's talk then McLame, you immoral POS - you hate war? Then why the fuck did you authorize and cheerlead this war and

Torture!

You voted for torture, you miserable fuck! You who know what it really is voted to allow our government to break international law and torture people.

Do not tell me that shit about you hate war. Liar.

Wow! Have they ever set themselves up for a devastating Moveon ad.

OPEN: A five second clip of this video in which McCain says, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war."

CUT TO: McCain singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. Bomb, Bomb Iran."

CUT TO: McCain casually saying, "Why not make it 100 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years?!"

CLOSING CAPTION:

YOU DO THE MATH.

He's spending over $3 million on it - and putting it up in swing states like Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

You know, when McCain was young war was different.

You'd jump on your dinosour, grab a stick and try to club caveman bob off his dinosour. If you won you got to club a female for mating puposes.

Little known fact: The recent movie "10,000 BC" is based (loosely) on McCain's youth.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10000_bc/

Guess what? I don't have to be divorced to help someone in therapy who's going through a divorce. I don't have to be gay to help them with their sexual identity. I don't have to have been tortured to help someone with PTSD. You get the picture.

McShame!

If you turn his argument on its head, then only someone who's NOT been to war knows about peace!

Do not be seduced by repub efforts to bend logic and destroy sense! Avoid McShame's nonsense! Call it what it is!!!

Forty years later John McCain is continues to remind us that he was a POW. No matter what the issue, it always comes back to being a POW. He's like Rudy Giuliani on steroids.

Did Mavericky McSame argue prudence in the run up to the war with Iraq? Running an ad with the absence of those statements would be (IMHO) a devastating retort.

He is going to be the Rudy Giuliani of POW isn't he?

POW POW POW!!!

POW!!!

He should've spent the last three or four months at speech camp. Or teleprompter camp, at least.

What a fool and a fraud!!!!!!!!!!

Please TPM, quick re-edit with all the times he spoke romantically about flying in Vietnam... How great things are in Iraq, Arguing with Chuck Hagel on the Senate floor about the war, Talking about the first time he heard about Pearl Harbor, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.

There is so much...

Oh, Oh, Oh... and what has he called the protesters in the 60's and 70's who opposed the war... How many times has he criticized Dems who oppose the war... Does Defeatocrats ring a bell.

He is going to lose this by his own words.

I guess "I Hate Torture" didn't work as well as "I Hate War", but only minimally.

I wish stupid, transparent ads like this one didn't sway voters.

Raining bombs down on the people of Vietnam is not heroic. Sitting in a jail in North Vietnam is insufficient punishment for bombing and killing and there is nothing heroic about it. Bombers are not heroes. John McCain is not a hero. Never was. He was a hard-drinking bully, a Navy jet jockey killer.

The real John McCain was revealed the day he hugged George Bush. He's an old, confused, perhaps dotty, hack politician with a red nose. He's an opportunist with no guiding beliefs or convictions. He postures and changes positions to suit the day, the audience, the opportunity.

There will be no White House for John McCain, no redemption for the old killer.

McCain's statement that he hates war (I'll take him at his word) reminds me of another statement by a famous general: "I hate war but I love the smell of it."

Problem is, I can't remember who said it, and googling does not help.

And then there is Kilgore in Apocalypse Now:

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

And then there is John McCain: "Bomb bomb bomb Iran..."

Coincidentally there is an article by Chris Hedges' Collateral Damage at Salon. His thesis: Iraq has become a killing ground.

I would send a copy to McCain if I believed for a second that he would read it.

What I find most disconcerting is McCain's background as an aviator. I think he is pre-disposed to application of air power and long-range naval missiles as a military panacea. He doesn't understand ground forces at all and has an aviator's bias against them. The Army and the Marines are seriously overstretched, but McSame will have all those intact, shiny air and naval units to play with. He likes the idea of precision munitions and "surgical strikes."

If McSame is elected, I foresee a Pentagon dominated by the Air Force, a reckless over-optimistic application of airpower, and serious distortions in the defense budget to the neglect and detriment of ground forces. Having a President with no prior military experience is vastly preferable to having one with an air-power bias. Obama has humility and will rely upon military advisors. McCain imagines himself an expert in all military affairs--but his strategic thinking is shallow, biased, and one-dimensional. That's dangerous for a commander-in-chief. Just look at the result of having an AWOL Air National Guard pilot in charge for eight years.....

I see. We have to fight an endless war because he hates war.

How Orwellian.

McCain is certainly proving to be a flipflopping triangulating weasel-mouthed pol.

What a slimeball.

Ok, let me make a few points, I look at John McCain' record-he graduated thrid from bottom of his class at Anapolis, was a playboy fly boy with enough women and affairs to make Bill Clinton jealous (by the way they were even porbably more attractive than Bill's selections). He never commanded anything larger than a training squadron and his last years in military were spent as the full time lobbyist fro the Navy on capitol hill-Frankly, it makes me a little concerned that various reports claim he was under consideration to necome an admiral, his major qualification seemed to be he was skilled at catering to congress and his grandfather and father were admirals (by the way is admiral a family business). I will not make fun of his prisoner of war experience-I honor him for the suffering he endured. Having said that it makes him no more qualified to Commander in Chief than anyone else. Look people, the job of President is to determine the political issues regarding war not the military issues-that is why we have a professional military and under the law the Cahirman of the Joint Chiefs is the primary military advisor to the President and reports to him in this capacity directly and not through the Secretary of Defense (did some one in Joint Chiefs miss that law before the Iraq invasion). RIchard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and George Bush one all had military expeience-didn't exactly help-LBJ in fact took that title so seriously he gave direct orders on bombing and troops in the field kind of too close to the action to make good judgements if you ask me. Last thing I want is a commander in chief who wants to actually directly command the military and thinks it knows how.
John McCain is an admirable human being with short temper (that makes me a tad nervous in President), arrogance, no domestic platform not already offered and failed by Bush II and the mistaken belief we are at war in Iraq-SOrry people we are at war in Afganistan, we are using 120,000 plus troops in Iraq to act as a police force and peace keeper for IRAQ-Ironically a tak we normally throw to the UN becasue our military leadrs have told the civilian government over and over they were not a peace keeping force.
AN example of the real mission of the Military and decent advise by Chairman of Joint Chiefs was the CLinton administration plan to invade Haiti. Teh Chairman said no I dont think so unless you figure out who is going to take over keeping peace, the CLinton had to form a police force from multiple countries and send it in after the troops under the command of Commissioner Kelly of the NYPD.
One wonders about McCain and Bush abandoning diplomacy, ineptly using economic powers is that the only tool left that actually works is the military. IS this a case where if all you have as a tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail?

This ad comes out the day after Phs II of the Intel Report that shows the War was all based on lies and unnecessary and he still supports the War in Iraq and thumps his chest over Iran. The whole ad is an oxymoron to the positions he has taken. War is in his genes. It is all he knows.

So, does that make george bush and fool and a fraud?

I hate war.

But not really.

That's why I had to do an ad to tell you I hate war.

I hate war.

"30 years ago, our president had all this political capital to finish the job in Vietnam and wasted it. If I become president, I wouldn't waste it. I would go back to Vietnam and finish the job."

Yes, creepy half face. Mixed message, clearly ending on the note: Now let's continue this war I hate.